Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months, most recently when representatives of three of the four major networks walked out of an N.A.A.C.P. "diversity hearing" on Nov. 29. (They were unhappy at being denied the microphone for hours following the testimony of Moonves, the only network top dog to show up.) But for all the verbal grenades fired, the N.A.A.C.P. campaign has sort of stumbled along. A network boycott originally planned for November was postponed, while some within the N.A.A.C.P. leadership grumbled privately that Mfume's first high-profile campaign since taking the organization's helm in 1996 was ill-conceived...
...WEST WING (NBC) Attention, networks: There is dramatic life outside precinct houses and hospital wards. Aaron Sorkin's White House series is a love story of people and their jobs that overcomes its speechifying tendencies and tics (half the action takes place as characters stalk down corridors) with verbal gunplay, public-policy triage and an appealing lack of cynicism--about, of all things, politics...
...flows effortlessly in funky tracks like "Uplift" and "All Night Long," and his silver-tongued baritone plays skillfully against Nneaka Morton's soft vocals in "I'll Be There." But it's in "When I Be On Tha Mic" that Rakim proves he is still master of tight verbal syncopation, complex rhyme schemes, and unforgettable lines: "DJs display tricks like the Matrix/Make the record fly undetected by the naked eye/So just feel the vibe 'cos your ears never...
...great literature. Whatever we imagine without this guidance is dull and unsatisfying compared to the detail and life our imaginings attain under the tutelage of Homer or Flaubert (two of Scarry's favorite examples). She claims that the "ordinary enfeeblement of images has a striking exception in the verbal arts, where images somehow do acquire the vivacity of perceptual objects, and it is the purpose of this book to trace some of the ways this comes about." Literature contains structures and formats that allow the reader to envision brilliantly...
...Labor practices U.S. labor, with the verbal support of the Clinton administration, is pushing for the WTO to enforce minimum labor standards in developing countries, protesting that manufacturers are exploiting sweatshop conditions. But the governments of many developing countries see this as an attempt by Washington to protect American jobs at the expense of the Third World poor. With low labor costs often the only competitive advantage many developing countries have in the global economy, they fear that enforcing labor standards will simply expand unemployment in the developing world...